Here is the lobby of Caesar's Palace decorated for Christmas over the past three years. You can only do so much to dress up statues of half-naked women.







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In other local news, an armed gunman took around $1.5 million in gambling chips from one of the craps tables at the Bellagio early yesterday morning. He rode up on a motorcycle at 3:30 a.m. and wore his helmet the whole time so nobody saw his face.

Experts say it's going to be extremely difficult to convert the stolen chips to cash, particularly the $25,000 and even the $100 chips. There is some kind of secret tracking technology built into them, so they are like a stolen gift card that looks okay on the surface, but the computer can see that it's stolen when someone tries to use them for money.

They think it's the same guy who robbed the cash cage at the Suncoast poker room of $20,000 on December 8, so I'm sure the casinos are on the alert.